Word: doctoral
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...idea of role play is not so foreign to our cultural consciousness. We all love movies and plays, in which actors assume roles, the more completely and convincingly the better. We play doctor and house as kids. My sister was never ridiculed for having imaginary friends, named Tuna and Salmon, who interrupted family dinner on occasion by knocking on the front door—a sound only she heard...
...late 1980s, the family was forced underground and Marroquín saw his father only sporadically. Still, Escobar encouraged his children to lead their own lives. "My father did everything to keep us separated from his business," Marroquín says. "If I wanted to be a doctor, he said he would give me the best hospital. If I wanted to be a hairdresser, he said he would give me the finest salon in the whole city...
...Every doctor interviewed for this article urged patients not to avoid necessary surgery or forgo required anesthesia. To understand the consequences of going without anesthesia, Wilder points to certain surgical trends in the 1960s. Believing that babies were still too underdeveloped to feel pain, many doctors at the time advocated only light anesthesia or none at all for infants undergoing surgery. "The morbidity and indeed mortality levels were much higher [in these babies]. The stress response to the pain of the surgery proved dangerous," Wilder explains. It is also important to remember how primitive surgical painkilling mechanisms were before...
...People want short answers to burning questions,” said Harvard Health Publications Editor-In-Chief Anthony L. Komaroff. “They don’t want to spend two hours reading about a disease that a doctor says they might have...
...sler now has one of the most difficult jobs in Merkel's cabinet. As Health Minister, he'll come under intense pressure from the myriad lobbyists, medical insurers, doctors' groups and pharmaceutical companies as he attempts to change the financing structure of the country's health-care system. The appointment of a relative ingénu to this key post caused widespread surprise. One newspaper carried the headline: "FDP Youngster in a Dogfight." But some analysts say his youth and inexperience in federal government will not be a huge issue. " Rösler is very competent, he's a doctor...